poverty legislation

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1. act for the relief of the poor 1597

  • encouraged apprenticeships
  • hardening attitude to vagrants but support for the old, sick and young
  • poverty now officially seen as a social ill
  • government recognised it isn't always the individual's fault that they are poor and new system in place to help them find work
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2. the act for the relief of the poor 1576

  • defined the types of poor
  • government recognised it isn't always the individual's fault that they are poor and new system in place to help them find work
  • JPs registered poor in parish
  • hardening attitude to vagrants but support for the old, sick and young

3. what was introduced in 1553

  • the reformation
  • houses of help
  • houses of correction
  • dissolution of monasteries

4. vagabonds and beggars act 1495

  • stocks for 3 days and sent back to parish
  • defined the types of poor
  • branding and slavery for those who begged
  • encouraged apprenticeships

5. the poor law act of 1601

  • licences for the impotent poor to beg introduced
  • voluntary contributions to alm
  • poverty now seen as a social ill
  • encouraged apprenticeships
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